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The following tribute article to Guy Playfair by Alan Murdie has appeared in the Paranormal Review (No 87 (Summer 2018) published by the Society for Psychical Research)
It is difficult today, some forty-three years on, to appreciate the impression that Guy Lyon...

IMAGES OF THE DEAD? PERMANENT PARANORMAL OBJECTS AND THE ‘FACES OF BELMEZ’, SPAIN
The January 2017 edition of the Spanish magazine Ano Cero (No.318) carries an examination by Isabela Herranz of the historic Battersea Poltergeist case that occurred in Battersea,...

In a piece entitled ‘Illusionists must be honest if magic is to survive’ carried by The Times of London on 25 July 2016, one of its leader writers Oliver Kamm paid tribute to conjurers, stage magicians and illusionists such...

Many people say they can make out a figure in the window of this Victorian house - known as ‘The House of Suicides’ – that stood at 16 Montpelier Road, West Ealing London. Taken in 1944, does it show...

HYSTERICAL TALES FROM ASIA AND ELSEWHERE
A story in the Times of India that an unnamed 65 year-old (or in some reports a 62 or 68 year-old) man staying at an Ashram in India died after suffering chest pains on...

THE SOUTH SHIELDS POLTERGEIST
The following is a review by Alan Murdie of the book on the case of the South Shields Poltergeist of 2006. The book attracted a lot of controversy on-line. In reviewing this book I decided to...

Hannath Hall poltergeist case begins like the start of a classic ghost or horror story. One stormy evening in 1957 a local newspaper reporter from Peterborough was suddenlystranded by a car breakdown near Hannath Hall, in the Cambridgeshire Fens. ...

Illustration of ‘Gef’ (1936) from the Haunting of Cashen’s Gap by Price and Lambert
GEF THE TALKING MONGOOSE
"You can think as you like," said the monk, with a faint smile. "I exist in your imagination, and your imagination is part...

‘Just like the others’….Colombian poltergeists and two predictions for researchers
The late Scott Rogo stated in his book The Poltergeist Experience (1979):
All through the study of the poltergeist we have seen how fickle it is. If it is called a...

A PRECOGNITIVE DREAM OF A FLOOD DISASTER: A "QUASI HIT" REGARDING THE 2004 BOXING DAY “TSUNAMI DISASTER
By Alan Murdie
(First published in the Paranormal Review Issue 9, July 2006, Society for Psychical Research)
During the period 2003-2004 it was comparatively...

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Europaranormal is the website of Alan Murdie and is devoted to the study of the paranormal from different scientific and cultural viewpoints. It looks at paranormal phenomena occurring both in and out of the laboratory and particularly ghosts and hauntings, poltergeists, precognitive dreams and strange coincidences.